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Head of Global Employee Relations

ByteDance · San Jose, CA · 6 days ago
On-siteHuman Resources$190k–$487k/yrFull-time

About Us

Founded in 2012, ByteDance's mission is to inspire creativity and enrich life. With a suite of more than a dozen products, including TikTok, Lemon8, CapCut and Pico as well as platforms specific to the China market, including Toutiao, Douyin, and Xigua, ByteDance has made it easier and more fun for people to connect with, consume, and create content.

Inspiring creativity is at the core of ByteDance's mission. Our innovative products are built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and enrich life. As ByteDancers, we strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our Company, and our users.

About the Role

We're the Employee Relations team — we manage the relationship between the company, its employees, and employee representative bodies (e.g. unions, works councils). We design practical, compliant solutions that protect employees' rights while enabling business growth.

  • Employee Relations case management and resolution
  • Union/works council engagement
  • Non-compete compliance

Responsibilities

  • Global Scale & Complexity: Lead a Global ER team located in 4 regions to support ER cases in around 45 jurisdictions to balance business needs, meet management philosophy, and control risks.
  • Strategy & Operation Closed Loop: Develop ER strategy, guidelines in different ER areas of underperformance, restructures, probation failure, etc., and partner with HRBPs to drive cases smoothly.
  • Digital Transformation: Optimize processes and introduce AI to improve efficiency.
  • Labour Relations: Collaborate with the Employee Representative Body to ensure compliance as well as management implementation.
  • Non-Compete: Develop post-termination restriction strategies in different countries and drive case implementation.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

  • Strong HR professional capability, with deep expertise in strategic business partnering and the ability to support business leaders in complex, fast-paced, and global or multi-market environments.
  • Proven leadership capability, including the ability to lead through ambiguity, set clear priorities, build high-performing teams, and drive cross-functional/cultural collaboration across regions and stakeholder groups.
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex, high-stakes, and executive-level matters with discretion and sound judgment.
  • Ability to quickly understand our business model, operating environment, and the regulatory and cultural landscape of the markets we serve, and to translate that understanding into pragmatic ER strategy.
  • Strong problem-solving capability, learning agility, ownership, resilience, and high standards of integrity and confidentiality.
  • Good communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills. Able to influence stakeholders through data, empathy, and deep business understanding.
  • Proficiency in English to collaborate effectively with global stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Working experience in fast-paced technology, internet, platform, or other high-growth business environments.
  • Juris Doctor (J.D.), employment-law background, or relevant professional HR/ER certification.
  • Familiarity with labor relations, works councils, unions, or local employment practices in one or more international markets is a plus.
  • Proven ability to use data and analytics to drive proactive, preventative ER strategy.

Benefits

  • Day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) savings plan with company match.
  • Paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits.
  • 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year, and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $189,800 - $487,200 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work; this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units.

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